langue

Borrowed from French langue. Doublet of lingua and tongue.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑŋ(ɡ)/

  • Audio (US):

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langue (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.

   Coordinate term: parole

• lagune, Luange, lengua, genual, Naugle, ulnage

From Latin lingua.

langue f (plural langues)

1. language

• IPA^(key): [ˈlãɡᵊ]

langue (plural langue) (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)

1. alternative form of lengoua (“tongue; language”)

• langue in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Middle French langue, from Old French langue, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”).

See cognates in regional languages in France: Champenois laingue, Norman laungue, Gallo lenghe, Picard lingue, Bourguignon laingue, Franco-Provençal lengoua, Occitan lenga, Corsican lingua.

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /lɑ̃ɡ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /lãɡ/

• Audio (France):

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langue f (plural langues)

1. (anatomy) tongue

   la langue dans la bouche

   the tongue in the mouth

2. (linguistics) language (system of communication using written or spoken words)

   la langue maternelle

   the mother tongue, native language

   une langue étrangère

   a foreign language

   Elle parle trois langues.

   She speaks three languages.

   faire parler la langue française

   to make speak the French language

   — Bertrand Barère

• Haitian Creole: lang
• Karipúna Creole French: lang
• Louisiana Creole: lang, lalanng, lalongn, lalangn, lalang, long
• Seychellois Creole: lalang
• → English: langue

• “langue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• englua
• lagune

• IPA^(key): /ˈlan.ɡwe/
• Rhymes: -anɡwe
• Hyphenation: làn‧gue

langue

1. third-person singular present indicative of languire

• lagune

languē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of langueō

From Old French langue, from Latin lingua.

langue f (plural langues)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. language

   Synonym: langage

• Middle French: langue de cerf

• French: langue (see there for further descendants)

From Old French langue, from Latin lingua.

langue f (plural langues)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey, anatomy) tongue
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 543:

     Le cul d'un sac et la langue d'une femme gagnent terjoûs.

     The bottom of a sack and the tongue of a woman always win.

2. (Jersey) language

• langue dé belle-méthe (“mother-in-law's tongue”) (plant)

• lingue, lengue

From Latin lingua.

• IPA^(key): (archaic) /ˈlenɡʷə/
• IPA^(key): (classical) /ˈlanɡ(ʷ)ə/

langue oblique singular, f (oblique plural langues, nominative singular langue, nominative plural langues)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. language

• (language): language

• Middle French: langue
  • French: langue (see there for further descendants)
• Champenois: laingue
• Franc-Comtois: landye
• Norman: laungue
• Picard: lingue
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: lengue
• Walloon: linwe

From Old French langue, from Latin lingua.

langue f (plural langues)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. language

From French langue (“language”).

langue

1. language

Borrowed from French langue.

• IPA^(key): [laːnk]

langue f (indeclinable)

1. (linguistics) langue

• “langue”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025